The second law of thermodynamics, entropy, flatly denies any delusion of “progressive” evolutionary models, theistic or otherwise. Information degrades as it is copied. It is also a philosophical absurdity to propose that a perfect deity, necessitated by its capacity of not only creating space, time, matter and information, but doing so instantaneously, would spin up a complex inorganic universe and then devise a model of populating it with biologicals so poorly conceived as to require trial and error, death and destruction, suffering and sorrow, all to arrive at the mediocrity we see around us today. To call such “progress” would be a violation of the term. It would make far greater sense for that being to insert an unblemished, completed biological entity, modeled upon itself, at the center of that universe, establish rules of engagement as an experiment in free will, and observe that entity failing and setting off a series of events that would become a bloody and irrational history, thus retaining the creator’s status as perfect, since it must be, and the creation as broken thanks to the increasingly poor free will decisions of those biological entities. This, without question, mirrors both the world we observe as well as the biblical model, which makes total sense.